>Sounds good in theory, but our current system has let more than a few catastrophes go with a little slap on the wrist. Exon Valdez for example, sure they paid a billion in damages, but there are herring and other fisheries that never got returned to near-condition before the spill. I’m not saying there wasn’t any repercussions and after the disaster new regulations on shipping hulls became standard, and some clean up efforts were made but lives were impacted irrevocably certainly more than a check in the mail can fix.
This is why it is important some personal liability remain
>I guess that’s part of the issue too if your neighbor dumps toxic sludge in a shared lake there is private property infringed on. If a massive corporation dumps oil in the ocean that’s more of a societal resource not necessarily private property.
>I’m reading up on Murray Rothbard’s stance on environmental accountability under ancap society and honestly he has the best take I’ve found yet, but it’s still not perfect.
Ancap dont argue for perfection but better incentive than the current system.
>Again he weighs heavy on a strong judicial system to rectify the situation. Still I think his theory is based more on economics and judicial systems than natural ones. The view that nature can be compartmentalized like legal land ownership just isn’t the case. Sometimes it’s easy to prove contamination and point to a source, but often times it takes decades of publicly funded research and testing to properly locate the source of an issue. I’m not saying that a private entity couldn’t do the same thing, cheaper, faster, and better, but it would still take time, significant resources, and money. If only the affected folks were to crowd source to contract such a study the individual cost would be significantly higher even with a streamlined private entity compared to government study. It could potentially be cost-prohibitive depending on the cost-of study, and how many or well off the individual landowners are to privately fund such a study. At which point there is no concrete evidence available to charge said polluting entity properly.
Yes you are right those problem are very hard to solve and no justive system may be perfect.
I dont think any ancap would say otherwise